Tave adolphe canet



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' J. B. G. A. GANET.

GUN CARRIAGE OR MOUNTING.

Patented Mar. 8

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J. B. G. A. GANET.

GUN CARRIAGE 0R MOUNTING. H No.v 4743 287. Patented Mar. 8, 189 2.

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' J. B G. A. CANE-T.

GUN OARRIAGE 0R MOUNTING.

No. 470,287. Patented Mar. 8, 1892 (No Model.)

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Patented; Mar. 8, 1892.

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JEAN BAPTISFE GUSTAYE ADOLPHE CANET, OE PARIS, RANGE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THE SIR JOSEPH YVHITYVORTH 8: COMPANY, LIMITED,

OF OPENSHAYV, ENGLAND.

GUN CAFiRlAGE-l R MUUNTlNG.

QPEGIFIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,287, dated March 8, 1892.

' Application filed Email 4, 1891. Serial No. 383,?29. (No model.) Patented in France December 1836, 3 and England June 29, 1387, No 9,217.

To all whom 1 2? may concern.-

Be it known that I, JEAN BAPTISTE Gus- TAVE AnoLPriE CANET, engineer, a citizen of the Republic of France, and a resident of 5 Paris, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gun Carriages or Mountings, (for which I have obtained paten't-s in the following countries, viz: in Great lritain, No. 9,217, dated June 29, 1887, and in France, No.180,3&9, dated December 18, 1886,

' which inve'ntion was formerly included in my application for Letters Patent of the United States, Serial No. 278,59l,filed June 29,1888,)'

7 of which invention the following isa specifi- :5 cation, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. 7

My invention relates to gun carriages or mountings of the kind or class in which ahydraulic brake is arranged between the turntable or under carriage and a part of the mounting which is capable of up-and-down movement with the gun for the purpose of diminishing the concussion or shock to which the apparatus is subjected in the recoil of the gun.

In the specification of my former application for Letters Patent of the United States, Serial No. 278,594, filed on the 29th of June, 1888,l have described gun carriages or mount 0 ings of this kind or class.

My present invention is more particularly designed to improve the construction and increase the efificiency or utility of carriages or mountings for siege-guns or guns of posi- 3 5 tion mounted on wheels.

In my improved gun-carriage I make use of two sets of brake apparatus so arranged that the one will resist the horizontalor nearly horizontal and the other the vertical or nearly 40 vertical components of the force or stress exerted in the recoil. I will hereinafter refer to these sets of apparatus as horizontalland vertical brakes,

lily present invention comprises the com- 5 oination, with a guncarriage mounted on wheels, of a turn-table provided with vertical guides or upon which are fitted to slide blocks firmly secured to the axle, so that the axle can move up and down with the gun rela- Lively to the said turn-table and the gun-car- 5c riage can be rotated or trained about the axis of the said turntable.

My said invention also comprises the coin- N bination, with the said turn-table and the axle, of'a vertical brake and recuperator for counteracting or resisting the downward thrust of the recoil and for raising the gun and carriage after, the recoil, a suitable horizontal brake and recupera'tor being also provided.

My said invention also comprises the combination of a rocking lever which carries the gun and which is mounted upon the axle and connected with the horizontal brake and recuperator, and parallel motion apparatus whereby the gun can be elevated or depressed, and which will, at any angle of elevation or depression of the gun, keep the same in its recoil parallel to the line of fire.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of one form of my improved gun car- 'iage or mountin Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal central section of the same, the gun being shown in side elevation. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the said carriage or mounting. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section illustrating details of construction; and Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section, the gun being shown in side elevation, illustrating another form or modification of my improved guncarriage.

Like letters indicate corresponding parts throughout the drawings. 7

A is a base-plate or racer-path, which is designed to rest upon the ground or upon'a suitable floor or platform.

B is the turn-table, which is supported upon the said base-plate or racer-path by means of rollers or balls A. The said turn-table is provided-with a central pivot B, working in a sleeve or socketA formed with or firmly attached to the base-plate A.

U 0 are the wheels.

a The gun is supported by its trunnions in the upper end of a rocking or oscillating lever a, mounted upon the axle Z). This lever 5 is formed of two parts, one on either side of the grin. The lower arms of the said rockin g or oscillating lever a are coupled, by means of a forked piece a or other suitable means, to the piston-rod l) of the horizontal brake l), which coupled or pivoted at. its rear end to the trail :1. The lever n1 is, moreover, connected with the rods ,oi. rccupcmtors which are also coupled ei pivoted at their rear end to the trail :1 anti which comprise springs cfigincloscd in suitable boxes or casings, the said springs acting upon and being acted upon by disks or pistons c, Formed 01. fixed on the rear ends of the said rods c.

F. a vertical hydraulic brake, the piston-- rod ill oi" which. is connected. at its upper end with the axle I), through which the downwart force or thrust due to the recoil ol' the gun will be transmitted to the said brake. The pistoirrod ll' extends through suitable stuffs of the ln'alw-cylinder inn-boxes at both. and is provided at its lower end with a fixed collar E and an extension ll, which form, in combination with a spring l a rccuperator for raisingihe gun and carriage after the recoil. The spring F abuts at. its upper end against the collar E and at its lower end against a cross-piece ll, which forms part of an extension ll of the pivot llaud in which works the extension E of the piston-rod E.

in practice the pistons oi' the cylinders l) and 15 do not accurately lit the Said cylinders, but are made slightly smaller in. diameter, so as to provide for the flow of the liquid alternately from one side to the other of the pistons as the latter move in the cylinders.

The axle i) has firi'nly fixed thereon blocks Z1, which are adapted to slide vertically in or upon guides g, formed or ilxed on the tandards 13* of the turntable it for the purpose of guiding the axle in its up-and-down movement.

The vertical pointing or elevation of the gun eiiected by worm-gearing or other suitable-devices through the medium of a parallei notion appar'lus. The upper arinof the forms a part of this apparatus,,whieh surprises a bar or link 7L, coupled. atone end to the gun at h and at its other end to a lever 1 b fitted to turn upon the axle Z). The tumor of the lever a, the rod or link. 72, the lever 71, and that portion of the gun between the axis of the trunnions and the joint It form the four sides of a parallelogram, whereby the gun in its recoil will at any an gle of elevation or depression be kept parallet to the line of fire. 'lhe levers ahd 11 being arranged to turn about the axle Z), the elevation and depression of the gun can be effected without impairing the action of the parallelogram in this respect. The elevatinggcar shown in the drawings comprises a worm or endless screw is, fixed upon a shaft is", provided with a haudwvheel k for rotating it.

- The said worm 7c is geared with a worm-wheel segment 7L3, formed or fixed on the lever 13 as moreclearly shown in Fig; l.

The gun, mounted upon the carriage constructed and arranged as above described, is

intended to be used as a siege-gun or gun of position, an d can be trained, as required, abou t the pivot or axis of the turn-table ll.

'lhe piston-rod E of the vertical brake is so attached to the axle I) that the said brake the vertical recuperator, the base-plate A, and turn-table B can be readily removed when the gun and carriage are to be transported from one place to another and can be readily replaced when the gun is to be used. The wheels C should be removed when the baseplate, turntable, and vertical brake and recuperator are used.

In the form or modification of my invention shown in Fig. the elevating-lever 7L2 is arranged between the checks of the trail (I and the toothed segment 71" is geared with a suitable hearings in the trail. The said pinion is also geared with a pinion or, fixed on a shaft m, which is supported in suitable hearings in the trail (I, and upon which is also fixed outside the trail a worm-wheel n. This worm-wheel is arranged to be rotated by means of a worm 7., formed or fixed on a shaft Ir, provided with a hand-wheel 7;". There may, if desired,be two elevating-levers 7L2, arranged between the checks of the trail, both levers being operated by means of pinions fixed on the shaft 1 and being connected to the gun by links 71. The horizontal brake D and the rccuperator e are in this modification arranged between the checks of the trail.

It is evident, that other brakes and recuperators may be substituted for those above described. Moreover, the construction of my apparatus may be otherwise modified without departing from the nature of my said invention.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 wish it understood that I do not; claim, generally or irrcspectively of my present improvements, the use of parallel motion apparatus for elevating the gun, as I have described and claimed such apparatus as applied to a disappearing gun in the specification of mytormcr Letters Patent of the United States No. 413,130.

ft hat I claim is- 1. A gun-mounting comprising an undercarriage or turn-table, a siege-gun carriage adapted to move up and down relatively thereto, guides on the turn-table for guiding the said carriage in itsup-and-down movement thereon, and an elastic resisting device 0011-.

provided with guides forg'uiding the said earriage in its up-and-down movement thereon, and an elastic resisting device consisting of a brake and rceuperator connecting the axle of the said carriage with the said turutable, for the purposes above specified.

3. In a gun-carriage mounted upon wheels, the combination, with the axle, of a rocking lever mounted thereon and carrying the gun, a vertical brake and recupcrator for supporting the said axle, and a horizontal brake and reeuperator connected with the said rocking lever, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

at. in a gun-carriage mounted upon wheels, the combination, with the axle, of rocking; lever niounted thereon and carrying, the gun, and a brake and recuperator coupled to the short arm of the said lever and to the trail of the gun-mounting, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

in a gun-carriage mounted upon wheels, the combination of a rocking lever mounted upon the axle, a brake and a recuperator, both coupled to the short arm of the said lever and to the trail, a lever fitted to turn about the said axle for elevating the gun, a link whereby the said elevating-lever is coupled to the gun forward of the trunnions and which, together with the said elevating-lever, the rocking lever, and the gun, forms a parallelogram, and means, substantially such as above described, for turning the said elevating-lever about the axle to client the vertical pointing of the gun, all substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

(3. In a gun-mounting, the eombiiiiatioinwith a turn-table, of a brake the cylinder whereof serves as the pivot of the turn-table and the piston-rod whereof is adapted to be secured to apart of the mounting which is capable of up-and-down movement with the gun, and a 'reouperator acting in conjunction with the said brake and turning therewith, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

7. In a gun-mounting, the combination of a turn-table, an axle Z1, supported thereon and capable of up-and-down movement relatively thereto, a brake arranged between the said turn-table and axle, a recuperator acting in conjunction with the said brake, a rocking lever a, mounted on the said axle for carrying the gun, a brake and a recuperator, both coupled to the short arm of the said lever and to the trail of thegun-monnting, a lever 71?, fitted to turn upon the said axle, a lin'k 7), coupling the said lever h to the gun, and elovating mechanism acting upon the gun through the medium of the said lever 71, and link It, all substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

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